Your thoughts on this toning...

Yes, I did learn this from his video. I found it fascinating. Definitely worth it to watch if you have interest in something that may add MS points to a coin (and hence, cost/value) because it has this.

Just as with the way the grades are now (no longer technical, but market grading... i.e., graded for the Value of the coin), a MA coin doesn't neccessarily mean that it is NT. The TPG may have felt that it was a coin that had value to not be nit-picked over whether the toning was NT or AT. Or both graders may have been influenced by the toning and made it MA instead of body-bagging it.

You are right, the best thing to do is educate what the TPGs are doing. And that they are or may be grading coins that are high value as MA when a lower or common coin would not be handled that way. It is market-driven, and to their best interests to make a market driven choice. But when you as a collector (or investor) comes across a coin that is like that, are you willing to pay the premium because you like the coin (pleasure in it) or because you believe that in the future this will stand and you will be able to sell at the same premium, grading-wise? Or will you discount it to a price a point or 2 lower and buy it at that price? In other words would you put it on the low scale of that grade and price accordingly?

 

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Beautiful coin IMO, market acceptable toning.

 

Idk if its NT or AT but I'd agree with album toning. One b-e-a-utiful coin there though. If I could afford it I'd definitely buy it.

 

I'd call it NT, but I think it has sat in the album too long. IMO i don;t like the tone on this one and would pass on it, but that's just me.

 

Why do some dimes turn like a little yellow

 

That seller inherited a lot of Shane Canup’s business, after Shane’s business, and personal life self-destructed. Some of his coins are definitely NT, and some are undoubtedly AT. I have seen many of my 100+ toners that I consigned to Shane 4 years ago recycled. All of the ones I sold were MA, and probably not AT (all slabbed, but we know about gassing slabs). This particular coin under discussion looks MA to me, and probably NT.

 

Note that this thread is nearly 8 yrs old. Carry on.

 

Google is funny that way sometimes.... you search for *exactly* the right specific terms, and it'll show a post from many, many years ago. And then the searcher asks a question on a forum in a post that turned up, and we all think they're weird.